Maqbool Fida Husain passed away in London, and he brings to an end an epic chapter in the nuances of contemporary art and its history. ... M.F. Husain’s epic work “Mahabharata: ...

Maqbool Fida Husain(illustration Bishwajith Debnath) ... His themes ranged from Ramayana and Mahabharata, divine figures, events from India’s ancient heritage, ...

Maqbool Fida Husain was born on Sept. 17, 1915, in Pandharpur, in the central Indian state of Maharashtra, and grew up in Indore in Madhya Pradesh. His father was an accountant.

Husain's Battle of Ganga and Jamuna: Mahabharata 12, fetched $1.6 million in 2008, setting a world record at Christie's South Asian Modern and Contemporary Art sale.

In this file photograph taken on 26 May, 2011, employees hold a painting entitled ‘The Sixth Seal’ by Maqbool Fida (M.F.) Husain at Sotheby’s auction house in central London.

Maqbool Fida Husain, nicknamed MF, is one of India’s most treasured artists. He has been called the "Picasso of India". In 1996 controversy arose over paintings originally painted in the 1970s which ...

Husain had once recounted that "We were paid barely four or six annas per square foot. That is, for a 6x10 feet canvas, we earned a few rupees. He had lived in self-exile since 2006 ...